In late August 1798, on the order of Napoleon also known as N.P., the Institute of Egypt (l'Institut d'Égypte) was founded in the palace of Hassan-Kashif on the outskirts of Cairo, with Gaspard Monge as president.
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The plates have been republished partly in different works, most notable by "Bibliotheque Image", Taschen GmbH, and "Institut De Orient" in 1988 and a subsequent edition in 1990.
There was unhappiness with the scope and completeness of the earlier surveys conducted by administrators such as Buchanan, and Hunter determined to model his efforts on the Ain-i-Akbari and Description de l'Égypte.
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A Molotov cocktail thrown by a protester went through one of the windows of the Institut accidentally or deliberately.
Moreover, the Église de la Pomme displays Annonciation, saint Jean-Baptiste et saint Étienne while the Église Saint-Sébastien in Allauch has Mort de Saint-Joseph and La fuite en Égypte.
A recipient of the Order of Merit (Egypt), El-Abbadi is a member of Egypt's Supreme Council of Culture (SCC), Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), and l'Institut d'Égypte.
Following Napoleon's Egyptian campaign and dissemination of images and descriptions via publications like Description de l'Égypte (1809) an intense cultural fascination with all things Egyptian followed.
The Valley of the Kings in Egypt was sometimes known as the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings (see, for example, H. Carter, "Report on tomb-pit opened on the 26th January 1901 in the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings", Les annales du service des antiquités de l’égypte 2 (1901).